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Moonshots : The Four Horsemen of the AGI Bullshit Apocalypse (opens the original)
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I’d like to believe that I’m fairly unbiased in my views or at least insomuch as they relate to technology and science. I try to consume a variety of sources of media and news however I am not immune to strong opinions. One thing that has begun to bother me lately is how loud the opinions are on either side and how detached from reality they often are. On one end of the spectrum you have the rationalists (the AI safety folks, the doomers, the folks who think AGI will turn us all into paperclips)
The Mechanization of Knowledge Work (opens the original)
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About a decade ago I worked in a factory. I was machinist and then later a machine setup at a factory that made ball bearings for aerospace purposes. A few years prior to this I had dropped out of college for mental health reasons. I spent a long time feeling quite useless before getting this job and doing it brought me a great deal of joy and purpose. At least, it did for most of the time I was there. Before that I had been studying math in college and despite nearly finishing my degree, I coul
Corporate Oubliette (opens the original)
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I was reading a book recently and came upon this term, oubliette. I vaguely remembered this in the recesses of mind however I had forgotten what it meant. The plot of the book is not particularly important other than that it’s about an astronaut who is trapped in a type of ancient alien labyrinth. It is a seemingly never ending maze created by long dead aliens that defies physics and he is trapped there. While the book does has a decent amount of details regarding its appearance in my head I env
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